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Article: Football: Sparty's over as Saints stroll; TENNENT'S SCOTTISH CUP SPECIAL End of affair for minnows St Mirren 3 Spartans 0.(Sport)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- February 15, 2006
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Byline: By David McCarthy
SPARTANS might have nurtured notions of extending their romance with the Scottish Cup - after all they were at Love Street on Valentine's Night - but St Mirren spurned their advances.
Now Gus MacPherson's men might just fancy themselves to go all the way themselves for the first time since 1987.
Saints won this fourth-round replay as comfortably as the 3-0 scoreline suggests with goals from John Sutton, Charlie Adam and Ian Maxwell but the non-league side deserved the standing ovation they got from their 800 fans as they ...